The Undeniable Pressure of Existence
by Patricia Fargnoli
I saw the fox running by the side of the road
past the turned-away brick faces of the condominiums
past the Citco gas station with its line of cars and trucks
and he ran, limping, gaunt, matted dull haired
past Jim’s Pizza, past the Wash-O-Mat,
past the Thai Garden, his sides heaving like bellows
and he kept running to where the interstate
crossed the state road and he reached it and he ran on
under the underpass and beyond it past the perfect
rows of split-levels, their identical driveways
their brookless and forestless yards,
and from my moving car, I watched him,
helpless to do anything to help him, certain he was beyond
any aid, any desire to save him, and he ran loping on,
far out of his element, sick, panting, starving,
his eyes fixed on some point ahead of him,
some possible salvation
in all this hopelessness, that only he could see.
Copyright ©: Patricia Fargnoli
End of the poem
15 random poems
- Memory
- On A Seven Day Diary
- may each find the peace within by Raj Arumugam
- Failure by Rupert Brooke
- Genesis by Vachel Lindsay
- To the Author of a Poem Entitled Succession poem – Alexander Pope
- Федор Сологуб – Плачет безутешная вдова
- A Hymn To Venus by Sappho
- Владимир Высоцкий – Войны и голодухи натерпелися мы всласть
- Paradise Lost: Book 05 poem – John Milton poems
- The Lover Pleads With His Friend For Old Friends by William Butler Yeats
- Some Say by Mark Miller
- Attempted Assassination of the Queen by William Topaz McGonagall
- Ancient Music poem – Ezra Pound poems
- Trial by Ruth Padel
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